Selected Essays

Name: Selected Essays
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ISBN: 9780192830722

ISBN-10: 0192830724

ISBN-13: 9780192830722

Edition: 1993

Authors: David Hume, Stephen Copley, Andrew Edgar

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In his writings, David Hume set out to bridge the gap between the learned world of the academy and the marketplace of polite society. This collection, drawing largely on his Essays Moral, Political, and Literary (1776 edition), which was even more popular than his famous Treatise of Human Nature, comprehensively shows how far he succeeded. From `Of Essay Writing' to `Of the Rise and Progress of the Arts and Sciences' Hume embraces a staggering range of social, cultural, political, demographic, and historical concerns. With the scope typical of the Scottish Enlightenment, he charts the state of civil society, manners, morals, and taste, and the development of political economy in the…

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List price: $11.95
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/18/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 4.60" wide x 7.30" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.506
Language: English

Stephen Copley taught English at the University of York

Introduction
Note on the Text
Select Bibliography
Chronology
Of Essay Writing
Of the Middle Station of Life
Of the Delicacy of Taste and Passion
That Politics may be Reduced to a Science
Of the First Principles of Government
Of the Origin of Government
Of the Parties of Great Britain
Of Superstition and Enthusiasm
Of the Dignity or Meanness of Human Nature
Of Civil Liberty
Of the Rise and Progress of the Arts and Sciences
The Epicurean
The Stoic
The Platonist
The Sceptic
Of National Characters
Of Tragedy
Of the Standard of Taste
Of Commerce
Of Refinement in the Arts
Of Interest
Of the Balance of Trade
Of Public Credit
Of Some Remarkable Customs
Of the Populousness of Ancient Nations
Of the Original Contract
Of the Protestant Succession
Idea of a Perfect Commonwealth
On Suicide
On the Immortality of the Soul
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